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Thursday, 22 January 2026
Let’s save the human species!
Noah Smith: “But this is also a coping statement rather than a solution. For one thing, we have no idea if it’s true or not.”
Monday, 19 January 2026
Patient handover from surgery to intensive care: using Formula 1 pit-stop and aviation models to improve safety and quality
Catchpole, et al: “It also appeared that the new handover changed the impact of teamwork on the process, reducing the need for good team performance to mitigate against large numbers of errors, but emphasizing the value of teamwork in achieving the lowest rates of errors.”
The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland
Brent Molinar: “Corporate America will face an extinction event.”
Monday, 12 January 2026
Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them
Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Short-Circuiting ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam Texts
JAG: “Sometimes people who send messages like this aren’t doing it by choice, and are being forced or trafficked into it. If that’s what’s happening, you don’t have to tell me details but please know you can get help confidentially and for free.”
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
The Vibecession and the AI bubble
Doug Muder, The Weekly Sift: “I’m currently reading 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin. I’ve also lived through the internet bubble of 2000-2001 and the subprime-mortgage real estate bubble of 2008. One common characteristic of bubbles is that accounting departments get a bit creative near the end.”
Friday, 26 September 2025
Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident
Gil Duran: “… collapsing institutions, chronic inflation, and the awkward realization that screeching about free markets doesn’t put bread on the shelves.”
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Study finds hidden fingerprints on our hottest days
Sarah DeWeerdt, Anthropocene: “By tracing the chain of causality back from extreme events to climate change to individual emitters, the analysis could contribute to a legal basis for establishing responsibility for heat waves and implement the ‘polluter pays’ principle.”
Monday, 15 September 2025
War for Ukraine Day 1,298: Putin’s Polish Gambit
Adam L Silverman, Balloon Juice: “My professional assessment is that Russia has now directly and intentionally attacked NATO member states. These are acts of war. These states, and NATO, need to accept reality and respond appropriately.”
Sunday, 14 September 2025
The iPhone 17 Event: Less Awe, More Unsexy & That’s A Good Thing
Om Malik: “The new iPhone 17 Pro only proves that they are the only company that will spend hundreds of millions to build a new cooling gizmo for the phone. … Most companies do vaporware. Apple does vapor chambers.”